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February 2024

Fed Up!

Fed up! Stressed! Tired!   Is it really because its February and the winter is sooooo long and...

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June 2021

Are long working hours killing you?

We all know that stress is a killer, but how do long work hours affect our health? Recent studies have...

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Internet Explorer is finally being put to rest.

Everyone's favourite web browser, Internet Explorer, is finally being retired in June 2020. Internet...

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October 2020

AI? Pish posh, Mary Poppins!

Just what's so intelligent about ignoring what makes us human?  Re-visiting the idea that the software...

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The Bitter Invention of Satan

For many of us it’s the first thing we think of when we get up in the morning. Or for others the...

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Personality and your job... Does it matter?

Do you need different personality types within a business?  Are certain jobs better for (and done...

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The internet of things...... going haywire?

Given that we are all going to go out and buy fridges that tell us what goodies we're about to run out...

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February 2020

Money Money Money

The 70's ABBA classic that may not mean anything to future generations. Delving into the world of facial...

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December 2019

Bitcoin: Back to Basics

Are you baffled by Bitcoin? Confused by Cardano? Stumped by Stellar? Well to learn the basics of the...

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November 2019

We Are Taking Over The World (And By We I Do Not Mean Us)

The We company who brought us We Work don't just provide offices but have branched out into more aspects...

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July 2019

Charles Bukowski, Alien Goats, and why you want to shout at the telly!

In today’s world where self-confidence is mistaken for self-awareness the abundance of confidence...

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May 2019

On having an astonishing face salad and the maintenance of a dusty scraggle

I was on the tube at the first flush of morning yesterday, it’s a great  chance to  people-watch...

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April 2019

The Investment Banks' Secret DJs

There is a secret, known only to a few: that the City of London has been penetrated by, and is now suffused...

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Are you cool? Awesome? wicked? Or just sick?

How did “awesome”, a generally positive if somewhat over-used acclamation, lose favour and...

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March 2019

Spiders, from Mars? (Or are they just walking across the ceiling only to drop down on your face when you’re half asleep and…. Oh God!)

Put “Spiders” into Wikipedia and the entry reads: “Spiders are air-breathing arthropods...

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When you walk into a room and completely forget what you wanted or why your ancestor's brain wasn’t sucked out by a bear!

Breathe easy, It’s not just you!  You know when you’ve just got up from the sofa and...

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Opportunity. Sometimes the most wonderful things can happen!

Opportunity, the Mars rover that has been trundling along for over 15 years has finally "died". ...

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January 2019

Entry level AV Technician

We have a great opportunity to get into the Audio Visual Industry for someone who is interested in the...

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The Borg Queen!

In my last blog I said our mobile phones were "making cyborgs of us all". I've been pondering this quite...

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Londoners, buses, and the inexorable progression of everyday tech....

Coming to work this morning on the train I looked up from my "phone" (why do we still think of them as...

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Back to work blues?

You know all those "Top tips for returning to work" that sprout up every January 2nd?

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December 2018

Event Lighting Project Manager

London based lighting hire and event production company specialising in extravagant corporate and fashion...

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Director of Operations

The Director of Operations is a newly created senior position within a progressive, energetic (and rapidly...

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Venue Production Technician

Enjoying flexing your natural personal communication skills will play a major part in your role, and...

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Project Manager Venues

Do you see yourself working for a Technical Event Production company that is going places, bringing your...

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November 2018

Warehouse Tech / Driver

Are you looking for an engaging role within event production and event lighting? Do you have knowledge...

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Tattoos - Just musing on Body Art at work

Working in Audio Visual with all the techies & geeks, the fans of SteamPunk & CyberPunk, with...

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Senior Event Technician - Brussels

We are currently working closely with a global events agency with offices in North America, Europe and...

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Events Lighting Project Manager

London based lighting hire and event production company specialising in extravagant corporate and fashion...

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Business Development Manager

North London based creative events company specialising in event management, production, venue finding...

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Live Event Logistics Hire Co-ordinator

Multi award winning event design and technical production company in London are rapidly expanding, adding...

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October 2018

Senior AV Technician - £28k - £35k

Our client is looking to expand their AV team - some of their extensive portfolio of sites now needing...

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Technical Manager AV/VC

Your experience will be highly valued at this rapidly expanding Technology Solutions Company.  They...

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July 2018

Business & Sales Developer

Business & Sales Developer We are recruiting for a great client, A Technical Production Company...

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Continued learning at work can be fun!

As Adam Uzialko at BusinessNewsDaily.com points out developing technologies may be an answer to the age...

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June 2018

Audio Visual & Live Event Tech. Glasgow!

  We're looking for a Corporate AV & Live Event Tech for Glasgow!  

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Client Services Director, Dubai

Would you like to escape 'the old world' and bring your management skills with the events and exhibitions...

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Video Conference & Audio Visual Technician - Permanent Role

Video Conference & Audio Visual  Technician - Permanent Role!  

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A new role: Technical Manager for a production company, London

Do you have a really strong background in Sound, Lighting and Video? Are you looking to join a vibrant...

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Yvonne Jacobs, Industry favourite!

Yvonne Jacobs - once again back in the Audio Visual and Live Event industry!  

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May 2018

Slicing up your genes - the easy way!

If, like me, you have an interest in genetic, and science generally, you've probably heard of Crispr. ...

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Holiday! (It would be so nice.....)

As Madonna says: "Holiday, celebrate..."   Maybe it's too late and you've got it all lined...

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Real Superpowers!

Some people really do have "super" powers - from having a 'perfect' memory, remembering every detail...

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And here was me getting all the flack for having sweeteners.......

Well, well, well.... It turns out that all that awful doom-laden talk about taking sweeteners is based...

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A rather fabulous animation about inventors & inventions... I love it!

Kyle O'Brien, on the Drum, gives us Ogilvy's animation shorts celebrating some of the lesser known inventors...

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How to make algorithms both understandable and funny!

Kevin Slavin gives a really great TED talk on algorithms. Sounds dreary?  It's not.  He brings...

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Danger, Will Robinson! Flying deliveries and robotic couriers. Oh dear.

Delivery robots.  We've been promised that they are coming for a long time.  Some of the big...

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Arguing better.... don't we all want to be able to 'drop the mic'?

Paul Ratner, from The Big Think, gives us the low-down on how to argue well. It's not necessarily all...

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What would you do if.... Looking at everything from a different perspective

Thought experiments are often useful and creative ways of exploring the social and physical world we...

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April 2018

And you thought Amazon was for Alexa to get you a new phone!

For the science and space geeks amongst us, we are used to hearing about Elon Musk and SpaceX, the rockets,...

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This one really does scrape the sky!

Tom Ravenscroft at Dezeen introduces us to the worlds "Third Tallest Building".  Being built in...

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It's not just driverless cars!

A fascinating  riff on how we will travel in 20 years time from Wired.  Trying to predict the...

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Is being silly the way forward?

Do we have to be stern and serious the whole time?  Need to keep our top buttons firmly done up...

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Data download.... what DO they all know about us?

Amanda Zantal-Weiner on Hubspot did what, perhaps, many of us are too scared, or too lazy to do: she...

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Storytelling and the rise of video

I've been finding it interesting that people have very different perspectives on what content any marketing...

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Calm down, it's just an interview!

What works for some people may not work for others, but advice on how to interview well is always worth...

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To eat or not to eat.....

It's been a staple of Science Fiction since the early days, with Captain Kirk first using a food "synthesizer"...

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What does it mean to be authentic?

With 'trust' being uppermost in many people's minds when engaging online - be it on the social media...

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March 2018

Does length matter? (It's VIDEO again!).

Advertisers are spending more & more online, trying to get their video seen by as many (or as "targeted")...

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Putting it together! IKEA construction made simple... maybe...

Now, I'm not the most "handy" of people and couldn't put up a shelf to save my life but, if I'm completely...

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Do you need to change to be high achieving

I'm always rather suspicious of these "change your life in 3 easy steps" and the "You too can earn a...

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Turns out everyone, Old Dog or New, should learn new tricks!

New discoveries about our brain - still the most complex structure we've so far come across in the known...

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Just something lovely from dezeen!

Dezeen magazine gives us a taste of Antony McCall's Solid Light Works Exhibition.  Beautiful.

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What is Blockchain?

Blockchain is one of those things, one of those concepts, that keeps coming up in relation to all manner...

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Schadenfreude...... When it goes horribly wrong!

What happens when you make a mistake, when it all goes horribly wrong?  It's all very well wanting...

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Your time on Social Media. Curse? Blessing? Both....

There seems to be a new study every week into Social Media: how does it affects Kids? How much time do...

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Women & tech. Why the gender divide?

It's interesting when you look at the statistics from studies in the UK on how and why girls choose the...

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Simple, effective website design.

A really good, succinct article from Adobe giving some excellent advice on web design and making the...

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February 2018

How can everyone enjoy their job more?

A some musings on what it takes to find work more fulfilling, more rewarding - and advice for both the...

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Your interview technique... Need improvement?

An interesting article by Lou Adler through Inc. about what he calls "The Sherlock Holmes" technique. ...

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The spirit of new technologies needs to find us willing.

It's interesting, to me at least, that many posts and blogs aimed at or for Marketing, Advertising and...

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Facebook changes, quality and spam!

The whys and wherefores of Facebook's recent changes have altered the way posts appear in anyone's feed,...

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Video, video, video!

You'll have seen it a lot recently,  the clarion call for everyone in 2018: Video, video, video!...

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Hi, I'm your Digital Overlord!

Some “experts” are saying, again, that we need to “Jazz Up the Job Title”, that...

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How to communicate with anyone, at any time ......

How To Communicate With Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere About Anything.....   For introverts and extroverts...

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Is The Future Video?

“A minute of video is worth 1.8 million words”. And there are an abundance of other facts...

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Spectacular change, like Winter, really may be coming!

We are constantly bombarded with articles, messages and TV programs - in fact from everywhere - telling...

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Hello Tweeter, are you real?

How do you know who is real on Instagram or Facebook?  Is ANYBODY real on Twitter? Does it matter...

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Your LinkedIn profile

Some interesting tips and information: everyone has their own little irritants or questions about how...

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Social Media & Small Business. Don't panic Mr. Mainwaring!

We keep being told that "The algorithm is changing"; that things will get worse, or better; and that...

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A thing of beauty

For our Architect friends and everyone else.....  David Adjaye's building, The Smithsonian National...

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Google's Questions & Answers

Joy Hawkins at Search Engine Land has a few questions of her own: Why aren't more businesses asking questions...

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Managing your online reputation

Chris Silver Smith, at Marketing Land talks through the idea of managing a company's reputation. ...

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Not just for millennials!

Maria Garrido at The Drum says: Brand marketing’s obsession with millennials over...

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New Job - Events Production - Account Manager

We are excited to announce a new opportunity as a Business Development Manager for a vibrant, global...

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Back from the future!

Dave Davies from Search Engine Land has a great short article looking back on 2018 from the perspective...

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January 2018

Social Media, Job Search and AI

Harriet Jones at Sonovate raises the issue of the new way in which Company Facebook accounts are able...

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Reaching smartphone users

From Chantal Tode at the Mobile Marketer we hear about whether, with more integration between the various...

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